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Douglas, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, 1927.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hb, no d/w, 219pp. No 448 of a limited edition of 500 copies signed by the author.
Seller: Diplomatist Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
Price: US$39.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited Edition #415. Signed by Norman Douglas. Hardcover, no jacket. Clean, unmarked, tightly bound. Moderate exterior wear and soiling. Light foxing throughout. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.)
Seller: Big Star Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology 1927. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition #220 of 500 copies. Signed by the author. Plain Green paper covered boards with white paper label showing author and title on spine. Top and bottom of spine and corners of binding rubbed through. Fore edges rough cut with some pages uncut. 219pp. Indexed. Content clean and sound. Tis book may require additional postage. Photos available on request.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Douglas, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. privately printed, 1927.
Price: US$80.63 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: hardback, octavo, blue paper covered boards with a paper title to the spine, a light crease to the spine, damage to the top left of the upper board and a 1" split at the foot of the upper joint, thus good only. The binding remains tight and the text is clean and unmarked, many pages remaining unopened. Published in an edition limited to 500 copies copies, this out of sequence and inscribed 'to John, in memory of Capri, from Norman, March 1949', tissue guarded frontis, 200pp
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing , 1927. A very good+ book in the original binding. With shelf wear to the top edges of the spine tips. No jacket. This is copy # 241 of 500 privately printed , Signed and numbered copies. SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece. Tall 8vo, pale blue boards, uncut; light wear at corners, front joint cracked; bookplate. (Florence), Privately Printed, 1927. Limited Edition. Number 261 of 500 numbered copies signed by Douglas.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hbk 219pp Limited Edition (edition limited to 500 signed copies of which this is number 227) SIGNED by Norman Douglas illustr text-block is toned front hinges loosening prev owner's label on front pastedown paper cover boards are shelfworn and dust stained now in a custom acetate jacket uncut pages overall a very good clean unmarked text
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece. Tall 8vo, pale blue boards, uncut; binding wear at corners and usual cracking at joints, some browning on end-leaves, and small wormhole in the first 3 pages. (Florence), Privately Printed, 1927. Limited Edition. A very good(-) copy. Number 405 of 500 numbered copies signed by Douglas, with an additional inscription by him on the half-title, dated 1932.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Norman Douglas. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, Florence, 1927.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, privately published in 1927 at the Tipografia Giuntina, Florence. No.72 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Norman Douglas. Very Good in blue Florentine paper covered boards with some small areas of loss at bottom corners and top of spine and fine cracking lines along grooves. Printed paper label at spine has two small chips. No dust jacket. Uncut,219 pp.+ frontispiece with tissue guard. Interior is very fresh and bright.No foxing, markings or names of previous owners.
Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 317/500 COPIES signed by the author, frontispiece (tissue-guard present), 2 small half-tone plates tipped in, pp. 219, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip with printed label lettered in black, a little wear to backstrip ends and board corners, dink to tail edge, top edge a little dusty, others untrimmed, bookplate to front pastedown,dustjacket slightly frayed, very good. (Woolf A25a)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 237. Octavo (22cm.); original blue paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label; 219pp.; photographic frontispiece, tissue guard. Lower third of upper joint cracked but holding, rubbing to extremities with boards slightly exposed, uneven darkening; textblock fine. About Very Good. Signed by the author on limitation page.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 219p octavo. 1/500 numbered copies signed by Douglas. This copy being #498 A very good copy in the scarce dust jacket with some very small nicks, and a chip on the back panel. The corners are nice with no wear, the two top corners of the jacket are nicked. Spine a bit darkened.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Norman Douglas (134). 219pp. 8vo. Woolf A25a Blue paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, Top edge is a bit soiled, else a fine, bright copy in very good dust jacket. The fragile blue printed dust jacket is moderately browned on spine, fore-edge fold (at front flap) has started to separate, with few nicked tears, else quite crisp and bright First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by Norman Douglas (134).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology. Privately Printed, 1927.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the author. The book fine, spotless and crisp, the jacket with a few tiny chips, but also spotless.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman.. Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology.. Privately Printed, N.P., 1927.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #12/500 copies printed letterpress on fine paper, all edges untrimmed, Numbered and SIGNED on the verso of the half-title leaf. A Fine copy in pale blue paper covered boards, spine label, in Fine blue printed paper dustwrapper, with original tipped on sheet reading "Price one guinea or six dollars. Obtainable from NORMAN DOUGLAS c/o British Institute Piazza Antinori Florence." tipped on the front flap. 219pp. with Index. This copy is uncut. A few small foxing spots to deckled fore-edge. Q15165
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards with printed paper label on the spine. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. Very good. Number 325 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Douglas on the limitation page. This copy is also signed and inscribed by Douglas in black fountain pen ink on the front free endpaper: "Arthur Johnson with best wishes from Norman Douglas Capri, Nov. 1947." Woolf A25a.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.